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Friday, January 09, 2015

NEMCO Motorsports To Chevrolet

NEMCO Motorsports will reunite
with Chevrolet as the father/son team of Joe and John Hunter Nemechek join Team
Chevy beginning with the 2015 NASCAR season. NEMCO Motorsports' teams will
compete with Chevrolet Silverados in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. In
addition, the NEMCO Motorsports Late Model program will also feature the iconic
manufacturer.

The move to Chevrolet
represents a return for NEMCO Motorsports, as team owner Joe Nemechek raced
with Chevrolet from 1991 to 2011. Through NASCAR’s three top national
touring series (Sprint Cup, Xfinity and Camping World Trucks) with Chevrolet, NEMCO has earned 19 victories
(18 in the Xfinity Series and one in the Camping World Truck Series) and 15
pole positions (14 in the Xfinity Series and one in the Camping World Truck
Series).

Joe Nemechek is excited about
the move to Chevrolet.

John Hunter Nemechek

“We look forward to joining
the Chevrolet NASCAR program this season," he said. “I've had a long-term
relationship with Chevrolet for the majority of my career and I look forward to
continuing that relationship.”

Nemechek won 18 races with the
manufacturer since he first began fielding Chevrolets in the Xfinity Series in
1991, and winning the 1992 NASCAR Xfinity Series driver and owner championship
en route to the manufacturers' championship for Chevrolet.

In 2015, John Hunter Nemechek
returns to the No. 8 SWM-NEMCO Motorsports Chevrolet, sharing driving duties
with his father until he turns 18-years old, when he plans to compete in the
remainder of the truck series schedule beginning at Kentucky Speedway on July
9.

The No. 8 has 153 NASCAR
Camping World Truck Series starts with Chevrolet, including 27 starts with his
uncle, the late, John Nemechek, an aspiring driver in the NASCAR Camping World
Truck Series.

The NEMCO Motorsports’ switch
to Chevrolet includes the conversion to ECR Engines to supply the team with
horsepower for the 2015 season.

"This is a big step for
our team and I look forward to working with Chevrolet and the guys at ECR
Engines for a competitive season in the NASCAR Camping World Truck
Series," John Hunter Nemechek said. “I have never worked with them (ECR
Engines) before, but I look forward to building a relationship with them and
running up front in 2015.”